Aesthetics
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-13 | Author:Yuriko Saito

2. Appearance of aging i. Sensuous qualities of aged surface Although the aesthetic appreciation of messy and disorderly appearance does exist and our appreciation of order and neatness is context-dependent, ...
( Category: Aesthetics March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:English Essays [Essays, English]

Introductory Note Sydney Smith Sydney Smith (1771–1845) was an English clergyman noted as the wittiest man of his time. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford, and in 1798 went ...
( Category: Anthologies March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:Stephen Davies [Stephen Davies]

Performance as practical knowledge Musicians make music; that is, the performance of music involves applied knowledge or know-how. How does practical knowledge differ from discursive knowledge? Consider acquired practical knowledge ...
( Category: Aesthetics March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-03 | Author:Davis, Duane

Hand/La Main How is the hand implied in the eye’s perception of the world? Is seeing derived from touching, yet at a distance? The hand grasps things, writes letters, and ...
( Category: Aesthetics March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-02 | Author:Julian Baggini [Baggini, Julian]

CHARCUTERIE If you’re looking for the traditional foodstuff that most flies in the face of current health advice, head to the charcuterie counter. Red-meat consumption has been linked with colorectal ...
( Category: Essays February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-26 | Author:Chakrabarti, Arindam

CHAPTER TEN A Complex Web: Approaches to Time in Rajput and Mughal Painting B. N. GOSWAMY Mughal art is secular, intent upon the present moment, and profoundly interested in individuality ...
( Category: Aesthetics February 27,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1989-07-01 | Author:Paul Valéry [Valéry, Paul]

Antirrhinum Siculum Solanum Warscewiezii!!! And the Sisymbriifolium, what jargon! … And the Vulgare, and the Asper, and the Palustris, and the Sinuala, and the Flexuosum, and the Praealtum!!! ” This ...
( Category: French February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Stefan Lorenz Sorgner [Stefan Lorenz Sorgner]

REFERENCES Schelling's Works Ages of the World. [Translation of Die Weltalter.] In Slavoj Zizek, The Abyss of Freedom: An Essay. Trans. Judith Norman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. ...
( Category: Aesthetics January 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Stamos, David N. [Stamos, David N.]

Contextualist History of Science There are different ways of doing history, and they need not converge given the very same topic. One way is history of ideas, which is popular ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-25 | Author:Robert Wicks [Wicks, Robert]

Key idea: The failure of metaphysics shifts our attention to morality Insofar as Kant repeatedly maintains that metaphysical knowledge is impossible – as in the Paralogisms – he appears to ...
( Category: Aesthetics November 20,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sartre, Jean-Paul;

1 Tr. Titian Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1477-1576) owed his enormous success as a portraitist to his ability to paint each subject’s ideal of himself. THE PAINTINGS OF GIACOMETTI1 From the ...
( Category: European March 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:John Berger [Berger, John]

For me it epitomised warmth. Warmth of two kinds. The warmth which such thick wool, when worn, proffers the baby. (Last night it was -15ºC outside.) And the sentimental warmth ...
( Category: Essays May 18,2017 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2016-05-02 | Author:Slavoj Žižek

A failed betrayal If one looks for a homologous subtle subjective shift in contemporary literature, it is a waste of time to peruse the work of James Joyce. One can ...
( Category: Aesthetics May 3,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Buridan

Chapter 2: The Division of Modal Propositions into Composite and Divided Now, in the second chapter, we must acknowledge that modal propositions of this sort are commonly of two types. ...
( Category: Aesthetics January 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-14 | Author:Malabou, Catherine; Shread, Carolyn; Crockett, Clayton

X. THE FANTASTIC AND PHILOSOPHY: LEVINAS The second source of the philosophical “fantastic” is Levinas’s philosophy. Levinas diverts the category of “fantastic” from its strictly aesthetic bonds (poetic, novelistic, cinematographic…) ...
( Category: Deconstruction January 8,2017 )